Analytical Skills 
Improve business decisions by learning how to gather, interpret and present data.

Develop specialized skills and strategies to help you assess patterns, identify relevant questions, gain data-driven insights and effectively share analytical information with others.

Topics

Speed and Sustainability:

Learn how to bring about change effectively and efficiently.

Staying Agile in a Turbulent World

To succeed in the face of economic turbulence, organizations must become more agile.

Strategic Alliances

Strategic alliances can be a great move for a company. Norma Watenpaugh and Hanoch Eiron explain why successful alliances start with involvement at the top.

Strategic Alliances: A Growth Model for Companies

Companies of all sizes turn to strategic alliances as a means to foster growth. But the dramatically high failure rate of these partnerships-50 to 75%-is evidence that getting people from different environments to work together productively is no...

Strategic Talent Management

The most important corporate resource over the next 20 years will be talent: smart, sophisticated business people who are technologically literate, globally astute, and operationally agile. To ensure their companies will have the right leadership...

Strategic Workforce Planning Needs Some Love

How to establish a business case for workforce planning.

Strategic Workforce Planning-A New Way to Boost Productivity

A new study examines how organizations are using a new management process called Strategic Workforce Planning to forecast what talent they need to successfully execute their business strategy....

Strategies for Dealing with the Challenges and Opportunities of America's Aging Workforce

Just like the rest of us, the U.S. workforce isn't getting any younger. 17% of American workers will be 55 or older by 2010, with nearly 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day. Savvy organizations are looking for ways to both harness the knowledge...

Study Shows That, Globally Speaking, Firms Have a Lot to Learn

A new study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity and the American Society for Training & Development shows that despite increased globalization, for many companies, there remains a large chasm between what they do and what they should do to...